I just want to give you one of
the simple verse, you all know it.
It's one of the great promises in the
Bible.
Philippians chapter four, verse 19.
And my God will meet all your needs
according to the riches of his glory in
Christ Jesus.
Okay, let's say that together.
Ready?
And my God.
Notice that Paul says my God, speaking of
his heavenly father.
The context I will explain in a second.
He will meet or supply all your needs
and the measurement that's used that he measures
out the blessings to us according to what
we need, not what we want, according to
the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.
That's a phrase we can't even comprehend.
According to the riches, but not money riches,
the spiritual riches of his glory, the outshining
of his magnificence that he has in Christ
Jesus.
Now this church in Philippi, Paul is saying
in this fourth chapter to them, when I
was away doing mission work, you were the
only church that supported me.
Twice you sent offerings.
And that meant a lot to me because
I knew you were very poor.
The Christians in Macedonia were very needy people.
It seemed like a lot of poor people
got saved.
But out of their poverty, they rounded up
their money and they sent it through a
messenger to Paul because Paul was doing mission
work, who would support him, how would it
help him?
He says in that portion of scripture, nobody
else helped me except you and you did
it more than once.
And then he said, that offering that you
sent to me is like a beautiful sacrifice
to God, the fragrance of it.
Whatever we put in that basket just now,
it's like a fragrance before God because we're
giving it to God.
We could hold onto it, right?
But when we give it for the work
of the Lord, Paul's saying that giving is
just very, very special.
And then he says a sentence which first
application has to do with money because they
were poor.
And he's saying, that's why he says, and
my God.
So he says, when I was in need,
you helped me.
But my God will supply all of your
needs according to his riches and glory in
Christ Jesus.
So you help me, but I wanna tell
you something.
God was watching and now I want you
to know, my God is gonna supply everything
you need.
So God loves to supply for the needs
of his people.
That makes sense.
What father doesn't wanna help his children?
What parent would see their children without special
needs?
I remember when school would begin and my
kids were little, that first day in school,
then you go to the supply store and
you get the notebooks, you get the pencils,
the pens.
Why?
You want your child to have everything they
need in school.
You don't want them to be laughed at,
be short, they can't learn, don't have a
book bag, don't have a ruler, don't have
proper pencils.
So what you do is out of your
concern for your children, you're not going to
school without what you need.
If we, with our own children, wanna make
sure that they have what they need, just
think about our heavenly father wants us to
have everything we need.
So here's the promise, because I wanna take
it way past the context there.
My God will supply all of your needs.
How many needs?
Most?
Every single one.
My God will supply all of your needs.
In the middle of the night, the Lord
woke me up last night and this is
the verse that was ringing in my heart.
I hadn't read it yesterday, hadn't thought of
this verse in a long time.
And I lay awake for an hour just
mulling over this verse.
God is saying to us, whatever you need,
oh, I hope we have faith for this.
Do you have faith with me tonight?
What God is saying, listen to me, ma
'am, listen to me, sir.
Whatever you need, I will supply it for
you.
I love you, you're my children.
You've put your faith in my son, Jesus
Christ.
You're part of my family.
What do you think, I'm a derelict parent?
No, no, no, I will supply all your
needs, not all your wants.
God doesn't give us what we want, he
gives us what we need.
I was telling some pastors the other day
about building programs.
They asked me, they said, you've done so
many building programs and seen God supply millions,
dozens of millions of dollars.
And what can you tell us about that
as we move?
Because I'm trying to believe God for $50
,000.
And when you tell me that he supplied
6 million in 10 minutes to your church,
it's like, oh, it's such an encouragement.
So what can you tell us, Pastor Jim?
So I said, well, listen, guys, make sure
you need it before you pray for it.
Before you go into the building program, do
you really need to do the building program?
Because if it's part of an ego trip,
if it's part of a monument to your
name or your denomination, God has no promise
for that.
He said he will supply all of our
needs, not our wants, our needs, our needs.
Yeah, I'm driving that Volkswagen.
Oh, would I love a Mercedes-Benz.
Lord, here I am knocking at the door.
I don't know about that one.
How many are with me?
Say amen.
I'm not sure you need that.
But everything you need, God says it's yours.
Now, I close with this.
Notice that it's not automatic that you get
what you need.
You combine that with the teaching of the
Lord who said, ask and you shall receive.
Seek and you'll find.
Knock and it will be open to you.
Just because there's a promise in the Bible
doesn't mean it happens automatically.
You have to pray the promise.
You have to come to God tonight and
say, God, pass a symbol, put up that
verse, and I believe it and you know
what I need.
You know that I have a temper that
is totally out of control.
I need you to heal me on the
inside and get me so connected with you
that I overcome that temper.
You know that bitterness I have toward that
person, my spouse, my mother-in-law, whoever
it might be.
You know the bitterness I have.
I need that out.
This is not an option.
I'm not asking for a nicer suit of
clothes and foolishness like that.
I need to be more like Jesus.
Am I with anybody here tonight?
I need, God, God, I need that.
God, my son is so far from God
and he's getting angrier by the month.
I need for you to intervene.
I'm not asking for money.
I don't care if you never give me
another dime, but I need for my son
to be rescued from the people he's hanging
around.
I don't know how you're gonna do it.
I've tried everything, but God, I need it.
I'm gonna give a testimony tonight.
I was called by a former employee of
this church whose son just went off on
a four-month, five-month, just, he went
off, he just went off.
Loves the Lord.
Just went off, got depressed, wouldn't talk to
anybody, wouldn't talk to his wife, the whole
thing.
So he called me and said, we can't
get through.
We don't know what to do.
It's delicate.
Would you reach out?
So I tried to make a call, but
when I made the call, I got sick
and I was so sick that I really
couldn't talk and counsel with anyone.
God understands that.
I was sick, sick.
So all I could do was pray.
And then I told him, listen, I can't
reach him, but, and he won't possibly call
me back, but I'm just telling you, this
might be one of those, it's not gonna
be done by saying something.
It's gonna be done by prayer only, right?
Because there's no verse we could say to
this young man and he'll go, oh, I
didn't know that was in the Bible.
He knows all the verses.
Have you ever prayed for someone?
They know all the verses.
They need a visitation from God.
They need a wake-up call.
They need a shaking.
And he just called me before I came
today because he knows how we've been praying.
I left a message, but his son had
gone overseas and now he just wanted me
to know.
Pastor, he came back, totally changed, totally changed.
Come on, let's put our hands together.
He's totally changed.
He's back to being who he was and
he sees it was an attack of the
devil.
And this former employee said to me, my
wife and I said, what a reminder.
You couldn't get to him, we couldn't get
to him, but God got to him.
Can we put our hands together one more
time?
God got to him.
Our sister here, she needs a word from
the Lord.
She needs direction.
She has a burden for Northern Iraq and
the Kurdish people.
But where, how, working with who?
There's maybe some question marks there.
Am I correct?
She doesn't want, this is not, you could
tell by her spirit, she sold out for
Jesus.
You could tell that, right?
But she needs a word.
She needs direction.
And she has to stand on this promise
and pray it.
God, you said you would supply all my
needs.
So here I am and I ain't moving
until you start to work and show me.
I'm not gonna pray for one minute or
five minutes.
I'll pray as long as I can pray
tonight.
I'm gonna wait before you, but God, I'm
asking you for something I need.
I need more boldness.
I'm so shy.
I get ashamed of myself.
Other people are flaunting their sinful lifestyle and
I'm afraid to stand up for Jesus.
God, it's not I want it.
I need your boldness.
How many believe God is interested in giving
us boldness, power, patience, patience?
God, I got a mouth that's out of
control.
My mouth, I speak things that hurt people.
I need for you to put a guard
on my mouth.
This is not an accessory to my life.
I need it.
I need, and only you can do it.
And God said, I will supply all of
your needs.
Close your eyes with me.
Listen, God says, I will supply all of
your needs.
Not most.
I will give you every need.
If you just trust me and pray.
Now, we've already taken communion, so I just
trust there's nobody here that has some obstruction
in your lifestyle, something you're practicing, carrying on,
that would grieve God and cause your prayer
to be hindered.
Because all you have to do is confess
it.
Just confess it.
God, I'm wrong.
You're right.
But God, I'm serious now.
I'm coming to you.
Here's the thing I need.
Focus in on just one main thing you
need.
Some of you might say, I got five
things I need.
Tonight, I just want one main thing that
you need.
Praise God.
I want everybody or anybody here who's starting
with, you need a word from the Lord.
You need direction.
In fact, while she was saying, as Marsha
was speaking, something got quickened in you, and
you were like, oh, I want God to
use me like that, but I don't know
how, when, where.
I need direction from the Lord.
Get up out of your seat and come
up here to the front.
But now anyone who has a special need
tonight, come out of your seat and come
up and stand with me.
You can kneel.
We're not gonna race out of here.
It's early.
Just come up out of your seat and
stand here and say, Pastor, I want to
ask God and wait before him for that
which I need.
I need money.
He knows the bills I have.
I don't want to go to debtor's prison.
I need his supply.
I need that job.
It's not that I want a job, but
I really could live without it.
I need it.
My Father knows what I need.
I want everyone here who wants to spend
a little season in prayer.
Don't rush out of God's presence.
Take time.
So everybody here, you can kneel.
You can stand.
You can stay in your seat.
Those who are seated.
But we're gonna bring our request.
Now remember, my God shall supply all of
your needs.
If you're standing with someone, like you're agreeing
together with your wife or a friend, just
pray out loud, God, we're standing on your
promise.
Pastor Semble didn't make it up.
He read it from your word.
Philippians 419.
You said you would supply.
Here's what we need.
Now move on our behalf, we pray.